Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-03-24

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Books: Lighthouses erected in the
sea OF time.
Man should trust In God as II God
did all, and labor himself as If man did
all.
Such as thy words are, such will thy
affections be esteemed; and such will
thy deeds as thy affection, and such
thy life as thy deeds.
He that would undermine the foun-
dations Of our hope for eternity seeks
to beat down the column which sup
ports the feebleness of humanity.
When you 60 home fill the house
with Joy, 80 that the light OF II will
stream out of the windows and doors
and illuminate even the darkness.
think the first virtue Is TO restrain
the tongue; he approaches nearest to|
the gods who knows how to be silent,
even though he Is ln the right.
The path Of duty lies In what 10 near
and men seek for 1t in what is remote;
the work Of duty lies in what Is easy,
and men seek for 1t in what is diff
| cult.
He alone is wise who can accommo-
date himself TO all the contingencies OF
life; but the fool contends, and is
struggling like swimmer against the
stream.
Each day, each week. each month,
| each year, new chance is given you
| by God. A new chance, a new leaf,
q new life, this is the golden, un-
speakable gift which each new day
offers to you.
We shall be obliged at last to con-
fess that the really precious things are
thought and sight, not pace. 1t does
q man no harm to go sometimes slow,
for his glory IL not all in going, but in
being.
Love still exists, but under altered
circumstances. He goes by train now,
and spurns those antiquated wings; he
has lett his rusty bow at home and
shoots with o breech loader, and he
has given up any little earnestness he
once had, as well az all his fun.
The best part of health is fine dispo-
sition. 1t is more essential than talent
even in the works of talent, Nothing
will supply the want of sunshine TO
peaches, and to make knowledge val
liable, you must have the. .eerfulness
of wisdom. Whenever you are sin
cerely pleased you are nourished. The
Joy OF the spirit indicates its strength.
All healthy things are sweet tenn
lpered.
| Nothing is more humanizing and
elevating than the love of flowers and
trees. Ridicule II as some men may,
there is profit in what they call mere
sentiment. When the trees which
bear luscious fruit cease TO be beauti-
full, and when nature becomes badly
utilitarian and too misery for the pro.
duction of anything but sordid neces-
saries, then may men follow. He may
shut his eyes to beauty and his ears to
melody.
The cant" spelled with an Gpos
trophe has done deal more to hinder
the advancement of righteousness ID
the world than has the ''cant" that i.
spelled without the apostrophe
Among those who were counted nnfi
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chapter Of Deuteronomy, was tn.
tribe of apostrophe cants: "Whai
man is there that is fearful and faint
heartfelt Let him go and return unto
his house, lest his brethren's heart fain
as well as his heart" Satan can us,
.. a discouraged man; God never does
except as signboard of warning.
. No one is able wisely to correct ,
fault, either In himself or in others
: unless he has fair conception of thu
!. virtue which has been transgressed
, 1t is by raising and purifying thei
! ideas OF truthfulness that men leart
I how to regard deceit and what weap
ons to use against it, 1t is by uphold
ing the character of honesty that the,
can truly battle against fraud. 1t i
by elevating their motions of benevo
lcnce that they obtain power to com
D bat selfishness 1t sby contemplating
r man as he should be, and becomin
!, familiar with the conception, that W
D arrive at the truest conclusions cor
4 corning what he is and how he ma
be improved.
|" All the qualities which are attribr
ted TO excellent speech will be foun
to have their roots in excellent chara,
e ter. Men admire its clearncss and az
y curacy; they come from love of til
truth and desire to convey it exactlJ
They value its vigor and racines,
which flow from the active and vigol
a Gus mind. They delight in its inter
o sity and tenderness. which are the ma
!, ural outpouring of intense and tende
Z, q feelings. The cheap imitation of thes
J., excellencies, ever when aided by pre-
70 ficiency in the study of language an
exper,ness in its use, can never CON
/. municate the same impressions or cor
:. vey the same ideas. Like counterfe
a coin, they lack the ring OF the tru
re metal.
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